Connectivity issues using MS Query in Excel

Hi,
I am currently having an issue with the connectivity when using the MS Query. This started about two weeks ago. I am running Windows 7 enterprise with office 2010. I am pulling data from an Oracle Database using the Microsoft ODBC for Oracle driver. Two
weeks ago using the MS Query option, it would take seconds for the two to connect. Now it takes 20 to 30 minutes and that is if it connects at all.
I am unsure of why all of the sudden the initial connection between the two is taking this long. To my knowledge no major updates or patches have been installed to either software.
Any advice would be great.
Thanks

Are you using SQL plus? Have you tried Oracle's SQL
developer? It is free, does not require an install
on your computer (you can run it from a flash drive),
and it exports pretty smoothly to excel.I'm not using SQL Plus -- this was purely excel / ODBC as the client and Oracle as the database layer.
I had looked at SQL Developer, along with DB Visualizer (along the same lines , as a sql gui with some export capability to .csv and excel formats). However, I don't think it quite served my purpose in trying to have a workable data-source where I could pull from Excel and use VBScript or C# to do the manipulation and customized reporting/charting/pivot-tabling.
My eventual workaround was to bypass MS Query altogether for creating the 'external data table' in Excel, and instead create the query through code.

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